IT 640 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Overview

Within an organization, the dependability of network infrastructures has become top priority. The fundamentals of how this infrastructure works within the organization requires a systems thinking mindset and the ability to properly develop an analysis plan. You have been tasked with analyzing the current network architecture of the organization and determining any key changes that should occur as the organization prepares for future growth. You will evaluate traffic patterns to determine critical aspects of your business and provide basic insight into what should be done to the network from a capability aspect and from a security viewpoint as the organization prepares for future growth. Ultimately, you will recommend a design for the future network architecture of the organization.

Prompt

For this milestone, you will create a project analysis plan. Your plan will identify the network applications of the current network including a description of how the current network is designed by explaining how the different layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model relate to each other within the network.

Refer to the following files when completing this milestone:

To complete this assignment, address the following critical elements:

  • Identify the network applications that are a part of the current network.
  • Identify and label the components of the network with the appropriate OSI network layer(s) (refer to the Organizational Network Diagram – Current file)
  • Provide a nontechnical description of the role and functions of key components, including routers, switches, and firewalls.
  • Provide a brief analysis of the current network configuration in terms of day-to-day business operations. Consider the following questions as a guide to your analysis:
    • What is the impact of losing connectivity between the Dallas router and the Memphis router? Which applications might be impacted between locations?
    • What is the risk of just having a single router or switch within the Memphis office?
    • How effective is the firewall in the current network?
  • Summarize the project requirements and deliverables

What to Submit

Your assignment should be 1 to 2 pages in length with double spacing and should conform to academic writing standard expectations for mechanics, content organization, and use of APA style.

See attached additional resources.

case 8

 

  1. submit your own original question and POST OF LESS THAN 300 WORDS. and cite
  2. submit a response to TWO other questions posed that week by your classmates and cite each one of them

 POSTS 

1. Are non-monetary performance indicators important, and if they are, what challenges exist in using them?

In section 4.9 of our book, the notion is presented that non-monetary performance indicators have become more and more prevalent, forcing Civil Engineers to engage with the public and private clients much more often, and much earlier in the process than ever before.

Considerations for:

  • Environmental issues
  • Disparate populations
  • Anti-Nuclear activists

All of these groups have armies of supporters they can use to put pressure on decision makers and designers, to produce more favorable outcomes for their causes and push companies to consider these causes as part of their ongoing measurement of success.

The Wharton School of Business at UPENN, talks about five of the challenges of using non-monetary measures:

  • The cost of considering a number of monetary and non- monetary measures is often greater than any benefits you might gain.
  • Unlike the more standard economic efficiency measures, non-financial data are measured in a lot of different ways, meaning there are no common denominators.
  • Difficulty linking non-monetary PI’s to financial PI’s to be able to justify the importance.
  • Because non-monetary measures are less objective, they become much harder to track and what you can track is less reliable than more traditional KPI’s
  • Some might say that the addition of non-monetary measures contributes to an overall dilution of the much more important financial measures.

 

2. How does monetary value affect index performance?

Monetary value is the amount of money a person, business, or market puts you into a product, product, or service. In fact, many of the goods and services in our modern economy have prices based on the value of money. Let’s look at some examples of resources, goods, and services that are priced:

  • Items such as metals, agricultural products, oil, gas and other natural resources
  • Visible material, which is the most personalized object, such as a computer, pencil and art
  • Intangible assets, such as patents, copyrights, and copyrights
  • The world
  • Certain intellectual property rights, such as gas, minerals, oil, timber and water rights
  • Jobs
  • Work, such as salary and salary
  • And businesses

In fact, almost everything related to our modern economy and market has value for money.

Steganography (Part B)

 

Submit a word document containing an analysis and a summary of the completed lab (part A). The word document should contain the following elements:

  • Summary of the lab
  • Analysis of the activities performed in the lab and their importance to the course topics
  • How the lab relates to the course and current module topics
  • Related concepts from the module readings and lectures
  • At least one external reference
  • 1-3 pages in length
  • Proper APA formatting and citations
  • Minimum of 1-3 references are required
  • Screens shots are encouraged but should be included as an appendix and not part of the total page count

discussion

Discuss the importance of code reviews in the software development process as it relates to developing secure software. Explain what code reviews are, who participates, and how such reviews directly impact security.